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David Nobbs
Every time someone changes sex, there’s one less freak in the world - meet the Divots. They seem a happily married couple. Then, one day, everything begins to change. Nick…
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Why should up-and-coming, thirty-two-year-old executive Robert Bellamy get himself the sack? What made him draw a caricature of the Exports Manager on the wall of the non-executive gents? Why is…
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‘A change of environment will bring you new business and personal interests, said Cousin Percy. Pegasus was glad to hear this.’ Whether Pegasus Baines would have been so glad…
One wintry afternoon a lodger named Wilson arrives at 38, Trebisall Avenue, filled with hope. As he crosses the threshold of Mrs Pollard’s house, with its aura of impending stew…
Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at 99, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing…
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By the man who created the immortal Reginald Perrin, this autobiography by David Nobbs recounts childhood events as well as his work with the greats of comedy from the 1950s…
Alan and Ange are on a train, heading for London. Alan is a philosophy lecturer, still a virgin at 55; Ange a 20-something, horoscope reading, darts groupie. They don’t expect…
Compiles three volumes of the misadventures of Henry Pratt, beginning with a funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood in Second from Last in the Sack Race ; Henry’s first job…
As eager to prove it as he is to please, he is in at the deep end in his chosen profession - cub reporter on the Thurmarsh Evening Argus. As…
From the author of the Reginald Perrin series comes a classic tale of two families, one posher than the other, set in a Yorkshire town.
When pretty young TV researcher Nicky Proctor visits Cafe Henry in London’s Soho, Henry Pratt’s life changes forever. He becomes an instant star of the TV food quiz, A Question…
Reginald Iolanthe Perrin is surely one of the best loved comic creations, in both literature and television. This omnibus collects together the first three Reginald Perrin novels containing outrageous adventures.
From one of the greatest comedic writers of a generation comes a story of love, faith and taxidermy.
The wonderfully entertaining new novel from bestselling author of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin.
The much-anticipated latest novel from David Nobbs is the spiritual follow-up to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and is as witty as it is prescient.
The classic follow-up to A Bit of A Do, about the comedy of Yorkshire life, told through seven more do’s.
Life after Deborah reaffirms Nobbs as the best writer of comedy and observer of the nuances of human nature that there is today.
At first it seems as if journalist Henry Pratt is living a life that is rather small in scope - but all is due to change. A series of events…
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Michael Birch,David Nobbs
Growing up in south Yorkshire in the Thirties and Forties, Henry Pratt is a podgy schoolboy who is no good at games and not exactly brilliant at work. By the…
